Dave Caolo

There are boxes of these in my basement. My family history is slowly deteriorating (Yes, that’s my mother’s handwriting). I must devise a way to digitize it.

My TUAW colleague Sang Tang took the first iPad ad apart, frame-by-frame, and determined how much screen time was allocated to each function. Awesome. Go and see the full chart.

Steve and the iPad both appeared on TV during last night’s Oscar awards. The ad (above) simply demonstrates what the iPad can do from a first-person perspective. Perfect.

You’ll remember that the first iPhone ad also aired during an Academy Awards ceremony.

When you want to attend the Oscars, and your name is Steve Jobs, someone’s able to make that happen.

I find that I “flick” my iPhone screen — dragging the UI of certain apps to the bottom just to let them pop up again — just for something to do. For example, when I’m waiting for Mobile Safari to load a page or Twitterrific to load some tweets, I’ll flick the page.

Tweetie is the only app I know that makes use of it. More should, as I’m sure I’m not the only one who does this.

The fun of toy cameras is in the light leaks, deceptive viewfinder, over saturated (or muted) colors and the whole unpredictability of it all. I’ve got a Holga and a few throw-aways that I enjoy using, but they aren’t always with me. My iPhone is, however. If only it could mimic those cameras.

Hipstamatic comes very close. I spent this morning shooting with it, playing with the included lenses, films and flashes, with pleasing results. Check out the photos below for a sample.

A full review is coming next week.

Hipstamatic User Interface Demo from Synthetic on Vimeo.

I came across Hipstamatic for iPhone today and was immediately smitten. I’ll spend a lot of time with it this weekend and review it on TUAW next week.

If you saw my earlier post about determining which apps will live on my iPhone’s home screen, Survivor-style, you might be wondering where the result post is. It was initially delayed by Macworld Expo (note to self: Don’t start a project prior to leaving the state for a week), but now I’m ready for the reveal. And the exciting follow-up announcement.

I’m very happy to announce that it’s at First & 20. I’m thrilled to be a part of that project. So … go see who won!

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